Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932184AbVKWTDA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:03:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932198AbVKWTDA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:03:00 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:54745 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932184AbVKWTC7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:02:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:02:41 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jan Kasprzak Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.14 kswapd eating too much CPU Message-Id: <20051123110241.528a0b37.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20051123131417.GH24091@fi.muni.cz> References: <20051122125959.GR16080@fi.muni.cz> <20051122163550.160e4395.akpm@osdl.org> <20051123010122.GA7573@fi.muni.cz> <4383D1CC.4050407@yahoo.com.au> <20051123051358.GB7573@fi.muni.cz> <20051123131417.GH24091@fi.muni.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 13 Jan Kasprzak wrote: > > I am at 2.6.15-rc2 now, the problem is still there. > Currently according to top(1), kswapd1 eats >98% CPU for 50 minutes now > and counting. When it's doing this, could you do sysrq-p a few times? The output of that should tell us where the CPU is executing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/